Writing Analysis Strategy: Part II: Holistic Analysis
Genre Diary Entry
Genre Top 10 list
Genre Cover page
Quickly look over the entire project. In each box write the genre of each piece and the type of information it appears the writer has chosen to include. Do you think each genre is appropriate for the audience and purpose? Please explain for each.
Diary Entry
Top 10 list
Cover page
Does the project have unity? Yes, it is very well put together and on topic.
Can you see how the writer created cohesion among the pieces? If so, how?
I can see this because he stayed on topic throughout everything and all the genres made sense.
If you cannot detect how this was done immediately, how do you think cohesion might be created in a topic like this?
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©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. HANDOUT 2E